My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better," Bauer said.... Later in his speech, Bauer said, "I can show you a bar graph where free and reduced lunch has the worst test scores in the state of South Carolina," adding, "You show me the school that has the highest free and reduced lunch, and I'll show you the worst test scores, folks. It's there, period."
I wonder sometimes what might happen if those who feel morally superior to the poor and less fortunate were forced to walk few miles in their shoes. One of the side effects of capitalism is that any system that creates winners tends also to create a surfeit of losers, those who for whatever reason are left on the outside looking in. Whether through an accident of birth, circumstance, or combinations of both, some folks miss the brass ring. Yes, some of the poor ARE lazy and stupid. Then again, so are some of the rich. Does the sloth and shiftlessnews of the few mean that we're to countenance a system that judges the quality of a person by the size of their bank account? Are we as a people really OK with a system that celebrates the winners and casts the losers aside as if they don't matter?
Andre Bauer should be credited for at least having the balls to voice what so many on the Right feel as a matter of course. That he represents a state with such a glaring disparity between the haves and have-nots is beyond ironic. South Carolina has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, and poverty is no mere abstract concept there. Yet Bauer sees nothing wrong with the idea that the poor deserve to be left to fend for themselves? What's next? How about sending them to camps where they can be sterilized?
Memo to the Lt. Governor: being born with a silver foot in your mouth doesn't mean that your wealth and privilege is a reflection of the natural order of things. It doesn't connote any sense of moral superiority upon you, nor is it reflect of anything more significant than an accident of birth. Compassion is a good thing; it's just too bad that you seem not to possess in any appreciable quantity.
This is why you never see "Republican" and "compassion" being used in the same sentence. Ayn Rand lives....
WE DESERVE BETTER.
